John 1:19-37

¹⁹And this is the recorde of Iohn: When the Iewes sent Prestes and Levites from Ierusalem to axe him what arte thou?

²⁰And he confessed and denyed not and sayde playnly: I am not Christ.

²¹And they axed him: what then? arte thou Helyas? And he sayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete? And he answered no.

²²Then sayd they vnto him: what arte thou that we maye geve an answer to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe?

²³He sayde: I am the voyce of a cryar in the wyldernes make strayght the waye of the Lorde as sayde the Prophete Esaias.

²⁴And they which were sent were of the pharises.

²⁵And they axed him and sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then yf thou be not Christ nor Helyas nether a Prophet?

²⁶Iohn answered them sayinge: I baptise with water: but one is come amonge you whom ye knowe not

²⁷he it is that cometh after me whiche was before me whose shoe latchet I am not worthy to vnlose.

²⁸These thinges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan where Iohn dyd baptyse.

²⁹The nexte daye Iohn sawe Iesus commyge vnto him and sayde: beholde the lambe of God which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde.

³⁰This is he of whom I sayde. After me cometh a man which was before me for he was yer then I

³¹and I knew him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell therfore am I come baptisynge with water.

³²And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende from heven lyke vnto a dove and abyde apon him

³³and I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptise in water the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy goost.

³⁴And I sawe and bare recorde that this is the sonne of God.

³⁵The next daye after Iohn stode agayne and two of his disciples.

³⁶And he behelde Iesus as he walked by and sayde: beholde the lambe of God.

³⁷And the two disciples hearde him speake and folowed Iesus.